Why creationists keep getting the "kind" argument wrong

[pitabread]

And around and around we go.

There's no "around and around" here. We're just talking basic facts.

There is nothing in nature that supports independent origins/lineages of organisms. Likewise, there is nothing in nature that supports evolutionary limits in said lineages per creationist claims.

The onus is on you guys to provide something to support these claims. Otherwise...

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

A "kind" is a "fixed lineage," preset by God during the Creation Week.

In other words, God foreordained that an animal He created would only evolve to a given point, then cease for whatever reason (sterility, extinction, whatever).

For example, He created the Panthera.

Later, it gave us the lion, the tiger, the leopard, and the jaguar.

'Panthera' is not a creature, it's a category grouping for related big cats. Humans created it long after the lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars, and some extinct species, had evolved.